Chamberlain v. Granola, Inc., No. 3:26-cv-07926 (N.D. Cal. July 30, 2026) joins a line of cases that includes class actions against Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai, other AI note-taking providers. Together, this line of cases highlights a bigger issue: companies that build, deploy, or tolerate these tools need to do so carefully.
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- Chamberlain v. Granola, Inc., No. 3:26-cv-07926 (N.D. Cal. July 30, 2026) joins a line of cases that includes class actions against Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai, other AI note-taking providers. Together, this line of cases highlights a bigger issue: companies that build, deploy, or tolerate these tools need to do so carefully.
- The complaint alleges that Granola uses captured communications for AI model training by default, and Granola’s own privacy policy acknowledges that data incorporated into models cannot be extracted once training is complete.
- The federal wiretap claim under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) faces a significant structural hurdle: one-party consent requires only the Granola user to agree, and the Ninth Circuit’s interpretation of the “criminal or tortious purpose” exception may not save the claim. If the federal count fails, plaintiffs are left with California state statutes and a named plaintiff in Florida, making nationwide class
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